What is inspiration / inerrancy?
If the Bible is inspired by God, then the logical conclusion is that it must be inerrant – the absolute truth and free of any error. But what exactly does that mean? In what sense is it inspired – what exactly is inerrancy? Q: How could we define inspiration and inerrancy? Roughly inerrancy means that when all the facts are known, the Scripture in their original autographs, properly interpreted, will be shown to be completely true in everything they say. They are God’s word and God cannot lie (Hebrews 6:18). A definition of inspiration is a little more difficult, as it involves imagining how God made sure that men wrote exactly what God wanted them to write. Peter tells us that holy man spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2. Peter 1:21). But what does that mean? Let us look at a few common views of that. • Universal/Naturalistic inspiration: the writers had received unusual spiritual insights from God but wrote as they determined best. In a sense this means the Bible is the wo
